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The settlement of Thorpe on the Hill is first mentioned in the Domesday Book. There was a small area of sokeland belonging to the King's manor in Bassingham. A berewic and sokeland belonging to St Peter of Westminster's manor in Doddington is also mentioned. The minimum population was 31. There is also a mention of a further landholding and a church in a dispute. {1}
'Thorpe' is Old Danish, and probably means dependant farm belonging to a settlement, which in this case may be Doddington. {2}
There were 25 households in Thorpe on the Hill in 1563, and by the early eighteenth century there were around 33 families.{3}{4}
In 1801 the population in Thorpe on the Hill was 190, and by 1901 it had grown to 293. {5}
A medieval hollow way, tofts, crewyards and ridge and furrow have been noted on aerial photographs as surviving as earthworks {6}
Further ridge and furrow earthwork remains have been noted north of Holme Farm and north of the school in the eastern part of the village. {7}
During a watching brief on an east-west access road (SK 90572 65528) at The Farm residential development a large boundary ditch was recorded. Being 7m wide and 1.5m deep it was considered too substantial to be for drainage or a territory marker. It is suggested that it is part of a homestead moat. Six pieces of fired clay were recovered from the edge of this feature, and it is thought that they may have originated from a medieval oven or hearth. Pottery was recovered which dated from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century. {8}{9}
A concentration of features including possible postholes and a scoop were also identified at SK 90584 65560. The scoop was in line with a change in the angle of the eastern hedge boundary, and this may have been a minor boundary ditch between fields. {8}{9}
At Westcliffe Court (SK 9058 6555) during archaeological fieldwork some rectangular cut stone setts laid in a surface are thought to be a paved yard outside a cattle byre or similar (previously 61200, which has now been deleted). {10}{11} | Subjects: | General Archaeology | Temporal: | 1000 - 1539 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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